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Jean Antoine Watteau

Study of a Standing Man in a cape and beret, seen from over his left shoulder, his right arm outstretched

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January 31, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Antoine Watteau

Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne

Study of a Standing Man in a cape and beret, seen from over his left shoulder, his right arm outstretched 


Red, black and white chalk;

bears old attribution in brown ink, lower right: Watteaux f

283 by 179 mm; 11 ⅛ by 7 in.

Johann Peter Anton Tassaert (1727-1788), Paris and Berlin (L.2388);
Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910), Berlin (L.1576),
his sale, Berlin, Lepke, 30 October 1917, lot 45, reproduced (all six drawings by Watteau in this sale - Rosenberg and Prat, op. cit., nos. 365, 402, 522, 639 and 649 - came from the Tassaert collection)
Paul von Schwabach (according to Parker and Mathey; see Literature);
Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, New York;
Private Collection, Vaduz
K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, London 1931, p.28 and note 3;
K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, 1957, Vol. II, cat. no. 680, reproduced;
M. Roland-Michel, Watteau. Un artiste au XVIIIe siecle, Paris/London 1984, p. 230, fig. 231;
J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of pictures, III, French before 1815, London 1989, p. 357 and 360
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996, vol. II, pp. 740-741, no. 447
Amsterdam, Willet-Holthuysen Museum, Antoine Watteau als teekenaar, 1935, cat. no. 3